How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1928 / Served to 1939

Irving G. Hubbs

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Irving G. Hubbs was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1928. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1952
Tenure: 1928–1939 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1928	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hubbs authored 247 published opinions for the court (1929–1939), plus 19 dissents. Most cited: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. City of New York (502 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1 of these was attributed to Hubbs by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1937	Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. City of New York	11 N.E.2d 728	502
1930	Johnson v. Lutz	170 N.E. 517	300
1939	People Ex Rel. New York City Omnibus Corp. v. Miller	24 N.E.2d 722	299
1933	Kirke La Shelle Co. v. Paul Armstrong Co.	188 N.E. 163	285
1930	Hornstein v. Podwitz	173 N.E. 674	201
1936	Thompson-Starrett Co. v. Otis Elevator Co.	2 N.E.2d 35	160
1930	McClelland v. Climax Hosiery Mills	169 N.E. 605	138
1937	Hauser v. Bartow	7 N.E.2d 268	127
1931	Gochee v. Wagner	178 N.E. 553	118
1929	Baumann v. Baumann	165 N.E. 819	101
1930	Dyer v. Broadway Central Bank	169 N.E. 635	99
1931	Thomann v. City of Rochester· Dissent	176 N.E. 129	93
1936	Fearon v. Treanor	5 N.E.2d 815	92
1936	Heiman v. Bishop	4 N.E.2d 944	92
1932	Albertina Realty Co. v. Rosbro Realty Corp.	180 N.E. 176	92

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Irving G. Hubbs on?: Irving G. Hubbs was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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11 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).